This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Why would Councilman Krekorian fail to find a need for supplemental environmental review on the Samoa Project considering among others ....

• The historic resource preservation cannot be ignored.

• There is inadequate parking and Samoa is a sub-standard street.

• There are no provisions to improve the infrastructure and the existing infrastructure can't handle the density now.

• The impacts on public safety. High crime area.

• Thorough Environmental Review must be required.

But then that was the argument of the Friends of the Southwest Museum, when they requested that a Supplemental EIR be conducted on the Autry National Center' plans to use public money to increase exhibit space at its Griffith Park location. And who was the council person that shot down the proposal?

** And as we focus on the follies of the "Red Rabble Occupying the South Lawn" LA Wave Newspaper "Soulvine Columnist" Betty Pleasant updates us on "Occupy Crenshaw Blvd."Najee Ali pulled out of the mass of demonstrators who have seized downtown L.A. and led a group of protesters to occupy Crenshaw Boulevard. Ali, along with staunch social/economic activists Big Money Griff,Jackie Grimes,Paulette Gipson, Beverly Hester and others marched on Crenshaw’s Wells Fargo Bank Wednesday and will do it to Bank of America in the Crenshaw Mall Thursday at 5 p.m. Like the rest of us, Ali and them abhor the banks’ racist, “reverse redlining” lending practices that have robbed African-Americans of their homes. But unlike the rest of us, they’ve resolved to do something about it.

Oh come on Red Spot, how about Carmen the [fill in the blank] being accused of extortion? Or isn't that news because nobody is particularly surprised at the accusation? This is going to be heard in Dept 72 of the LA Superior Court at 1945 S. Hill St., Los Angeles 90007 on Thursday 10/20 at 8:30am.

According to the 17-page motion filed by Century City attorneys Salerno & Associates, Trutanich uses the threat of criminal prosecution to force defendants to pay civil settlements. The motion is public record so why is so little being heard about this?

The Fair Housing Coalition have also realized that Trutanich's ACE program contains exactly the same ingredients - using the threat of a criminal case to force you to pay up an "administrative" penalty.

What confuses me the most is what is "different" about this project than other projects Krekorian has opposed? Has he made this clear?

Joseph Mailander has raised the specter of something fishy when you've mentioned that Council aides et al have urged folks to shut up about this one. Who is behind this, who owes them something and what is going on?

Joe Friday will like this. I did find it noteworthy that in all of the CC'ing of the letter sent by the STNC, Carmen was not amongst those, while everyone from Wendy to the Mayor to the local leg and the Governor, were.